Water Management

IDModeling, Inc., a provider of smart water network software and services, announced last week the spring release of its flagship network management software, Sedarū. This release brings modeling benefits to water utility professionals everywhere, featuring tools that calculate, map and alert ?What Happens Next? from anywhere, on any device.

The AWWA, AMWA and WEF have sent joint letters to appropriations committees in both the House and the Senate seeking full funding for the new WIFIA and for the existing State Revolving Fund programs for fiscal year 2015.

In an important development for the future of cybersecurity in the water sector, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has indicated it will pursue a voluntary partnership model to manage cybersecurity risks at water utilities.

Innovyze has announced that Seattle Public Utilities (SPU) in Washington has chosen the company?s InfoWater to support its large-scale, enterprise-wide geospatial water distribution network modeling and management needs.

In April, hundreds of water quality professionals visited Washington, D.C., to meet with members of Congress and discuss the prevailing water quality-related policy issues they are concerned about in what was billed as Water Week 2014, a first-ever event for Washington and for the water sector.

For our June Q&A, UIM sat down with Jesse Berst, founder and chairman of the Smart Cities Council to get a fresh perspective on how cities are using “smart” technology. Berst was one of the pioneering thought leaders and the chief analyst of SmartGridNews.com, the internet?s oldest, largest and highest-ranked smart grid site.

On April 28, Norm Gadzinski, a vice president with Parsons Environment & Infrastructure (PE&I), a primary business unit of Parsons Corp., was appointed Water Design-Build Council (WDBC) president following the resignation of Andrew Albrecht.

In April, the U.S. Water Alliance added three new directors to its Board. ?These nationally-recognized leaders will boost all of our efforts on the value of water and business of sustainability,? said U.S. Water Alliance President Ben Grumbles.

The Prince William County Service Authority?s (Va.) Geographic Information System (GIS) department playsa tremendous role in improving availability of utility-wide information to those who need access to it. That role will increase in the next few years thanks to a recent move to make the Service Authority more GIS-centric.

With the limited resources we do have to sustain our infrastructure, we tend to focus on what we can see: roads, bridges, schools and even our government facilities such as parks, offices, etc. We are more likely to neglect what we do not see, such as underground water and sewer infrastructure.